816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Live life to the fullest.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;